LucasArts Star Wars Rebellion Strategy Review

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

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5.00 of 5,
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Price Paid:  $10.00

Summary:
This is one of my all-time favorite games. The complexity and the fact that no two games are even SIMILAR let alone alike is the reason it's still fun after all this time. Sure the graphics aren't the best...but how many crappy games have you played that had GREAT graphics? I've paid probably thousands of dollars for 'pretty' games and keep coming back to this one. I use the CD's for the other 'better graphics games' as coasters for my caffeine laden sodas that keep me sharp while playing this game until sunrise.

If it were up to me, I'd redesign this game so the graphics people would shut up, and make the interface a little less clunky. I agree that some people don't enjoy the level of micromanagement that can be necessary to finely hone your skills as a Galactic strategist. However, I do. Once you understand what you are doing, and see how it works...you're hooked.

While the learning curve is steep, the rewards are an in depth game rich with missions and stories you develop in your own mind as you either fight back the Empire one planet at a time, or chase down the Rebellion and squash it.

Sending Han Solo on a mission to sabotage an Imperial Star Destroyer is simply ripe with possibility for entertainment. The characters and missions make the game very, very interesting.

The multiplayer option gives me mixed emotions. I LOVE to play against another opponent. However, due to the length of the game and the fact that you have a pretty good idea who's ahead and who isn't, I've never finished a multiplayer game. Beating, and getting beaten, by a human opponent is awe inspiring...however, the tide of the overall war is turned well before the end of the game. So once the 'war-deciding' battle is finished and the smoke clears, nobody is going to politely sit around for 3 more hours to be 'mopped' up.

All in all, it's a game rich with 'self narrative' and imagined movie scenes, decisive battles and desperate missions. I think it's a great game and nothing like it will ever be made again...simply because it's too long for the "microwavable Minute Rice" generation, to 'ugly' for the graphics lusting morons that have screwed up the computer gaming industry and way too hard for people who
can't get past "point and shoot" games.

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Price Paid:  $30.00

Summary:
This game was not bad. Although it's kinda boring if you don't understand the game enough to play it.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Price Paid:  $49.00 from Freddies

Summary:
Wow. What else can I say? This game is incredibly addicting. Sitting and waiting for the console lights to light up is unbearable! The sound is good, though it repeats. And C3PO is annoying as hell, but turn it off! The only thing that upsets me is that lack of overall control in the battle tactics mode. You can tell a capital ship to attack another but do they always do it? NO. But thats okay because 95% of the time they do, and its incredibly accurate. You can't take out an Interdictor with a gunship, you need to get the damn thing! If this game was rated on its graphics it would bomb horribly, but it isn't so this game rules!

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Price Paid:  $50.00 from London

Summary:
Great game very hard to master and almost impossible to get bored of. Although aged still one of the best strategy games ever made

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Price Paid:  $30.00 from don't remember

Summary:
When I first played Rebellion, it seemed tedious and annoying, but as I played it more, I got addicted. I bought this game four or five years ago, and just two weeks ago I picked it up again. Even though most game reviews that I have read about this game say it sucks, I am hopelessly addicted and I love it.